War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Joseph Nye, 1987

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Title:
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Joseph Nye, 1987
Description:
Joseph Nye was Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistant, Science and Technology, and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1977 to 1979). (In the 1990s, he served as chair of the National Intelligence Council, and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.) The interview begins with his views on the Atoms for Peace program and the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Much of the interview deals with his work on the nonproliferation issue under President Carter. He is asked about the Indian test, the oil embargo and its effects on proliferation, including administration worries about international pressures to reprocess plutonium. As a result, the U.S. decided to pressure other countries against reprocessing, and to forego it as well as an example. Dr. Nye then discusses the mostly negative impact this had on allies such as the French and Germans who had arranged supply deals with the likes of South Korea and Pakistan. The Japanese, he recalls, were also unhappy. He describes the purposes and impact of the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation, and the Carter administration's unilateral Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978, which also met with negative international reactions. Most of the rest of the interview deals with specific countries - Pakistan, Libya, India, Israel and South Africa. He asserts that the U.S. had less information available about Israel's program than was desired, including whether it was assisting Pretoria's program. He also reacts to the Israeli attack on Osirak, and discusses various current problem areas for nonproliferation. He closes with a comment on the London Suppliers Group.
Author:
Nye, Joseph S.
Date:
May 28, 1987
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
WGBH > War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Subjects:
Global Affairs
Military Forces and Armaments
Great Britain
Saudi Arabia
Israel
South Africa
Iraq
Korea (South)
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917-2002
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
Germany
Pickering, Thomas Reeve, 1931-
United States. Congress
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
United States. Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978
Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)
Nuclear power plants--Accidents--Pennsylvania--Three Mile Island
International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation
Nuclear Suppliers Group
Elections
Nuclear arms control
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
Deterrence (Strategy)
United States
Soviet Union
India
Pakistan
Brazil
France
Iran
Japan
Taiwan
Libya
Argentina
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Extent:
00:49:37
Link to Item:
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Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation